Utah to ‘Re-Examine' Police Shooting of Apparently Handcuffed Man

New cellphone video has prompted Salt Lake City prosecutors to take a second look at a police-involved shooting that sparked interest a year ago over the killing of a man shoveling snow, NBC News reported.

The new video purports to show Salt Lake City police officer Matthew Taylor standing over 42-year-old James Barker, who appears to be lying handcuffed and motionless on the ground. A series of sounds can be heard at the beginning of the enhanced video, which former Davis County Sheriff William Lawrence and others believe to be gunshots.

Taylor had been responding to reports of a man knocking on doors in the Salt Lake City neighborhood. Barker's partner, Heidi Keilbaugh, told local media at a rally on Friday marking the one-year anniversary of his death that she had asked him to go shovel ice. But she never saw him again.

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